External overflow design
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uncleof6
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The Ghost Overflow is a commercial rip-off of BeanAnimals drain system. I won't do the pvc overflow lecture, unless the OP gets to thinkin that they will work as advertised...
uncleof6
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The ghost overflow is a commercial rip-off of BeanAnimals Silent & Failsafe Overflow System, designed and documented here on Reef Central. The thread is usually on the first page, it is long... has all the information you need to implement the system.
Oh by no means do I mean to give credit to someone other than bean himself there uncleof6 is just that the original design and idea that bean had provided us all with had a bigger for print for a weir inside the tank is all. I'm probably just going to get glass cut and make it myself. I'm actually thinking that I have gone to far in over thinking something that should be so simple. But as I stated please do not think I endorse the use of someone else's ideas for commercial gain because I don't. I just wouldn't mind making it myself and then posting a diy bean animal ghost overflow thread lmfao
uncleof6
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Oh by no means do I mean to give credit to someone other than bean himself there uncleof6 is just that the original design and idea that bean had provided us all with had a bigger for print for a weir inside the tank is all. I'm probably just going to get glass cut and make it myself. I'm actually thinking that I have gone to far in over thinking something that should be so simple. But as I stated please do not think I endorse the use of someone else's ideas for commercial gain because I don't. I just wouldn't mind making it myself and then posting a diy bean animal ghost overflow thread lmfao
Bean's thread is dedicated to those that want to do exactly what you want to do. A healthy read, but a wealth of information...
No plans per se, but there are any number of custom tank builders who offer tanks with external 'scupper' boxes that function as a bean-animal overflow. Coast-to-coast is one of them and there may be some pictures on their website. If I were starting a tank again from scratch, and had the wall clearance, that's the approach I would take: a dual-bulkhead shallow profile internal skimmer box and then a larger external box with the three drains.
